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Comptia Project + Project Management

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






2. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos






3. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






4. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






5. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






6. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






7. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






8. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






9. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






10. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






11. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






12. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






13. The process of completing each project procurement






14. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






15. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






16. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






17. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






18. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






19. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






20. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






21. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






22. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






23. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






24. Reserve






25. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






26. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






27. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






28. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






29. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






30. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






31. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






32. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






33. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






34. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






35. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






36. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






37. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






38. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






39. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






40. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






41. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






42. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






43. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






44. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






45. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






46. A product - result or service generated by a process






47. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






48. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






49. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






50. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity